Grain par Grain…

2017 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

110 x 210 x 30 cm

Julien Creuzet


Full title of the work: Grain par Grain, sur le parterre humide et fissuré. Érosion sévère, graine, ma cote. Où est la manne, semence de l’antiquité. Grain ou pion, rachitique, échiquier économique. La Chine ne nous bouffera pas la jambe, l’échine. Si tu disparaissais de mon ventre, gonflé de misère. Héros invisible, écu cancéreuse, foutue humanité. Immiscé dans ma vie la plus lointaine, parcelle, parasite tenace. Eau de pluie, nous t’évoquons encore une fois. Mon jour depuis toujours. (Sans toi, je sens que tu t’en vas) This work is reminiscent of an island, a raft thrown into the sea. It gives the feeling of certain fragility but the grains of rice refer to the cycle of nature and life. The different elements each carry significant, the box referring to the body, rice to agriculture and trade, the European flag to international geopolitics, the Kalashnikov to the violence of war and drug trafficking. It is a visual collage of references to a world that we share ¾ -signs from universal popular culture. The large carpet on the floor is reminiscent of the makeshift stands employed in the flea markets in the outskirts of cities and refers to the precariousness of sellers from different horizons. The terms “archipelic” and “creolization” return as mantras in his vocabulary and in articles written on the artist and it is that this vocabulary is a way of doing and being in the world, fragmentary and crossed by a multiplicity of identities.


The work of Julien Creuzet reveals painful stories – both personal and political – making it impossible separate one from the other. Creuzet’s work places at the heart of its facilities the link between identities and economies, be it the transatlantic trajectories of the West Indians or those of the migrants of the South. He composes landscapes made of heterogeneous elements, mixing hurricanes of the Caribbean and the covered markets of the Parisian suburbs. Following Edouard Glissant, he operates a collective and subjective re-appropriation of an Antillean historical narrative, in the absence of cultural categories.


Colors:



Related works sharing similar palette

Untitled (Grate I/II: Shan Mei Playground/ Grand Fortune Mansion)
© » KADIST

Adrian Wong

2012

Untitled (Grate I/II: Shan Mei Playground/ Grand Fortune Mansion) is part of a series drawn from architectural objects that mark the boundary of public and private spaces Wong encountered while strolling in Hong Kong...

Pascua Dolorosa (Painful Easter)
© » KADIST

Fredi Casco

2017

Pascua Dolorosa (Painful Easter) by Fredi Casco is a series of drawings made on old worksheets documenting land surfaces in Caapucú, a forest exploitation area where one of the most violent episodes of the repression of Stroessner’s dictatorship took place in 1976, and during which peasants accused of belonging to insurgent movements were kidnapped, tortured and many of them killed...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Dikir Barat
© » ARTS EQUATOR

10 Things You Didn't Know About Dikir Barat | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Joy Ho / Jawn October 13, 2020 Most Singaporeans recognise traditional artforms such as Bharatanatyam, wayang kulit and wushu...

Metropolitan Museum of Art commissions Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul, and Tong Yang-Tze.
© » ARTSY

Metropolitan Museum of Art commissions Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul, and Tong Yang-Tze...

Wrong Currency (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
© » KADIST

Sanya Kantarovsky

2015

Wrong Currency (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) by Sanya Kantarovsky uses the stylistic vernacular of five separate artists to create a series of five lithographs, dealing with a series of apparently unrelated happenings, each staged as one “day.” The series takes up Kantarovsky’s theme of embarrassment across a variety of scenes, each populated by multiple figures, set in a disjunctive relation...

Steven Seidenberg: The Residue of Life & The Architecture of Silence by Victor Sledge - Los Angeles
© » WHITEHOT

Steven Seidenberg: The Residue of Life & The Architecture of Silence advertise donate post your art opening recent articles cities contact about article index podcast main December 2023 "The Best Art In The World" "The Best Art In The World" December 2023 Steven Seidenberg: The Residue of Life & The Architecture of Silence Shinjuku #3, Tokyo Tape...

Rite Aid
© » KADIST

Nicholas Buffon

2016

A series of works from 2016 document his neighborhood, replicating buildings and businesses he frequents within four blocks of his New York apartment...

Enlarged windows, glass bricks and balustrades allow light to flow through Hong Kong village home after renovation
© » SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

Enlarged windows, glass bricks and balustrades allow light to flow through Hong Kong village home after renovation | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Architecture and design + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more When work was thin during the pandemic, an interior designer tapped her employees to overhaul her family’s three-storey villa with garden in Sai Kung, Hong Kong...

7-headed Lalandau Hat
© » KADIST

Yee I-Lann

2020

7-headed Lalandau Hat by Yee I-Lann is an intricately woven sculpture evoking the ceremonial headdress worn by Murut men in Borneo...

2,000+ Sign Letter of Support for Palestinian Professor Amin Husain
© » HYPERALLERGIC

2,000+ Sign Letter of Support for Palestinian Professor Amin Husain Skip to content Amin Husain is the co-founder of arts and activist collective Decolonize This Place...

‘Gangbusters’ domestic economy sees prices rise at India Art Fair
© » THEARTNEWSPER

‘Gangbusters’ domestic economy sees prices rise at India Art Fair Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search India analysis ‘Gangbusters’ domestic economy sees prices rise at India Art Fair The region’s previous art market boom and bust has some at the New Delhi event questioning whether this new wave can be sustained Kabir Jhala 2 February 2024 Share A visitor at Chemould Prescott Road's stand at India Art Fair 2024 Courtesy of India Art Fair Quiet confidence has turned into bullishness at the 15th edition of India Art Fair (IAF) in New Delhi (until 4 February), South Asia’s largest commercial art event...

The Grid #1
© » KADIST

October 9 – October 12, 2013 In this workshop, Nicolás Paris, in collaboration with architect Max Turnheim, invite a group of architecture and landscape students to think about new potential relationships that could be generated inside and outside the exhibition space to transform its everyday use...

Nalini Malani — The Human Stain
© » SLASH PARIS

Nalini Malani — The Human Stain — Galerie Lelong & Co...

12 Artist-Designed Rugs Under $500 That Will Elevate Your Home Decor
© » HUFFINGTON POST

Check out these gallery-worthy options from artists including Jonathan Adler, Justina Blakeney and Keith Haring....

Scrapbook
© » KADIST

Bady Dalloul

2015

Bady Dalloul’s Scrapbook is a 48 minute video beginning from his birth, tracing major global events of the 20 th century, including the beginning and current Occupation and colonization of Palestine, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, assassination of family members and the Syrian diaspora...

Ghost 1: Drowning is not a poem but is not not a poem either
© » KADIST

Jota Mombaça

2022

Ghost 1: Drowning is not a poem but is not not a poem either by Jota Mombaça is part of a series of sculptures exploring water’s restless, elemental properties and what the artist describes as “the radicality of sinking”...

Provisão
© » KADIST

Rodrigo Braga

2009

Braga’s video work Provisão (2009) opens with a still shot of a clearing in a forest, shoots of grass emerging from a muddy brown patch of seemingly dry and barren earth...

Weekly Picks: Indonesia (25 June – 1 July 2018)
© » ARTS EQUATOR

Weekly Picks: Indonesia (25 June - 1 July 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Indonesia June 25, 2018 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Bali and Jakarta from 25 June – 1 July 2018 What would cultural heritage look like beyond the western perspective? Journey around East Timor’s Local Heritage is a lecture by Dominique Guillaud that looks at Atauro Island, an island in East Timor, and its heritage...

Landscape: the Virtual, the Actual, the Possible?
© » KADIST

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust Making use of the natural scenery is the most vital part of garden design...

Dakis Joannou Turned a Remote Greek Island into an Art Mecca - via Artsy
© » LARRY'S LIST

Every summer, the art world cognoscenti descend on the tiny island of Hydra to celebrate the new show at Dakis Joannou’s local project space....